Week Two Comes to a close

Here it is Friday of Week 2 already!  In Many ways it seems like we never left.  I am impressed with how much stuff the kids remembered over the summer.  Now we can start building upon that knowledge and learning more stuff.

1st Grade has been working very hard on keeping a beat while singing, saying poems, and listening to music.  They also have started learning about elemental form (patterns in music) and splitting things in half (both of which are math concepts taught in their classroom). 

2nd Grade has been reviewing the new concepts they learned last year such as quarter note and 2-8th notes and Sol & mi.  Next week we will be extending this learning to include writing, reading and improvising with these things

3rd Grade has been exploring movement with props in preparation for improvisation later on in the year.  They also have been taking rhythmic dictation of 8 beats and writing the rhythm of known poems on their own.

4th Grade has been extending their vocabulary of movement/dance terminology and created dance sentances which were performed in class.  In addition to that, they also reviewed rhythms and took 8 beat dictation and wrote down known poems. 

5th Grade reviewed a song from last year and played it on the barred instruments as well as writing down rhythms from last year.  Next week they will be improvising with the song "who has seen the wind" on the recorders.